Sea fish

All anglers have a place they love returning to because of some happy fish-catching memories they hold. The destination at the top of my list is Sea Palling which has produced all kinds of species for me in the past, as well as some of my best ever sea fishing experience. Although the beach has never produced a lunker for me, there is just something special about being there and enjoying a deep-set feeling of contentment and well-being when I am perched on my tackle box watching the tips of my sea fishing rods.

Sea Palling is a charming little coastal village very popular with so many tourists as well as fishermen. This village lies between Waxham and Eccles –On-Sea and has always been under the threat from sea and had a bit of a violent history.

Part of Sea Palling disappeared under the waves together with its church and the large estate of Gelham Hall. One of the earliest accounts was written by John of Oxendes, a monk at nearby St. Benet's Abbey, in which he relates the destruction brought by the great storm of 1287" .. the sea, agitated by the violence of the wind, burst through its accustomed limits, occupying towns, fields and other places adjacent to the coast .... it suffocated and drowned men and women sleeping in their beds, with infants in their cradles .... and it tore up houses from their foundations, with all they contained and threw them into the sea with irrevocable damage".